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*’• ‘*• , Esqr., has retired from the eiliiori
al department of tin* Georgia Platform, and is suc
ceeded by W. V. Wester.
<>overti or Broun offers a reward of One Hun
dred Dollars for the apprehension of Jacob Petty
john, who murdered (Jlaiborn Vaughn, in Forsytti
county on the 7th inst.
Mr. Edward Young Hill, dr., having resigned
the office of Solicitor General of the Coweta Cir
cuit, Thomas L. Cooper, Es<j[. of Atlanta, lias been
appointed to fill the vacancy.
The Bainbridge Argus anounces the death of
Mr. Daniel J. Bruton, a prominent, useful and es
teemed citizen of Decatur county. lie died on
Saturday night, the 21st inst.
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The lion. Richard Barrett, the newly elected
Member of Congress from the St. Louis District,
Mo., is thirty-eight years old, and is said to be
one ol the handsomest men in the United States.
The Southern Cultivator for September is on mu
table. This Agricultural Journal which has now
almost attained its sixteenth volume, has long
been established in public confidence, of which
it is as worthy as in the first j-eat- of its existence.
Published hv W. S. Jones, Augusta, Ga. at SI a
year.
The Aurora has made its welcome appearance
with well filled pages. It is published at Nash
ville, Tenn. and edited by Mrs. E. M. Eaton.
The late publisher, T. M. Hughes, editor of the
“ South-western Dollar Week It/,” has disposed of his
interest in the Aurora to W. It. Gulley, who will
in future conduct its publication. Price, S2 a
year; 5 copies, SB.
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We regret to learn, says the LaGrange Reporter,
that Rev. J. M. Bonnell has declined to accept
the Presidency of the LaGrange Female College.
We do not know his reasons for declining. The
College course will commence on the 24th proxi
mo ; and we suppose suitable and satisfactory ar
rangements will be made by that time for the com
plete organization of the Faculty.
A slaver was captured a fep’ days since off the
coast of Cuba by the United States Brig Dolphin,
and brought into the port of Charleston. She
had on board three hundred and eighteen Afri
cans, and was manned by a crew of nineteen,
English, Americans and Spaniards. She is now
in Charleston, where she will remain until some
decision is made as to her disposal by govern
ment.
We regret to learn, tays the Savannah Jtfeics of
the 28th inst. that Dr. W. S. Harden, of Bryan
county, was shot on Thursday morning last, by his
step-son, George K. a young man between
17 and 18 years of age. The weapon used was a
doubled barrelled shot gun, from which a full
charge of buck-shot was discharged into the body.
Deceased survived about an hour after he was
shot, and died calmly, and in the full possession
of his mental faculties.
Too True. —The Recover of Chicago, 111., in
charging the grand jury recently, said:
“During the past five years that I have held
this court it has been my unpleasant duty to try
and sentence to the State prison several hundred
persons; and lam sorry to say that, while it is an
easy matter to find jurors who are ready and wil
ling to punish the poor offenders withoutposition
or friends, it is ,vith great difficulty that jurors can
be found who appreciate the tact that one bad
man of position and wealth can do move harm
than one hundred poor men can who ar e in the
humble walks of life.”
The London <lmrlcrl>/ Review for July opens with
an able and interesting paper on Admiral Blake,
which carries us back into the days of the Cove
nanters and the Commonwealth. There are seven
other essays: History of Civilization in England;
Iron Bridges; Life of Wycliftc; Professor Blunt
and his Works; Shipwrecks; British Museum;
British India. This number opens anew volume.
Ee-published by L. Scott & Cos. New York, at S3
a-year. Either of the four quarterlies and Black
wood’s (monthly) Magazine may be had for 85.
All of the four and Blackwood, $lO.
•
We are happy to welcome to our exchange list
“ The Southern Homestead This is a neat eight
paged weekly, devoted to Agriculture and Gen
eral Literature, published at Nashville, Tenn.
The literary department is edited by Mrs. L. Vir
ginia French, who is well known throughout the
Mouth as an able and graceful writer. Far away
in the quiet of “ Forest Home,” amid the peaceful
seclusion of her family, she imparts to every drop
ping of her pen a grace, freshness and beauty
which is truly delightful. Her name entitles
and, we hope, will give to the Southern Home,
stead a large and extended circulation.
THERE has been, for years past, a great deal of
talk about the bad children of preachers.
The Episcopal Recorder, in an article on the sub
ject, takes the biographies of a large number of
ministers, and says:
“Os the sons of one hundred ministers, oyer
one hundred and ten became ministers. Os the
remainder, by far the larger portion rose to emi
nence as honorable and successful men in busi
ness, or in the learned professions. Is there any
body of one hundred men, taken at random
from any other pursuit in life, of whom the same
,<\an be said?”
We have often been surprised at the prevalence
.of this idea in regard to ministers’ sons, knowing
.that every one who would take the pains to make
•the examination might discover its fallacy. It
3 nay, however, be to some extent accounted for
on the principle that a circumstance becomes no
ted in proportion as it is uncommon. Occasion
ally, we see a preach?r\s son who is vicious and
corrupt, and then he attracts attention by the
strange contrast which he presents to the char
acter of his father. But a large proportion of the
men who have, been distinguished for their tal
ents or moral excellence have been sons of
preachers. Many have followed in the footsteps
of their fathers, ami confined their labors to the
Sacred Desk, while others have adorned and ele
vated every vocation in which human genius can
exert itself. Run over the names of history and
strike out all those who claimed ministers of the
Gospel for parents, and you will obliterate .sonic
.of its brightest ornaments. - -
Preachers, in common with all other men, are
at this day too lenient in the matter of family
government. A doting fondness winch causes
- them to spare the rod, is a great, and we fear, a
rapidly increasing evil. Boys begin to think they
are men as soon as they leave the nursery, and
Imperatively demand a vigorous application of
the birch to impress upon them the fact that they
are still in an age of pupilage. This is a fault of
which all classes are guilty; but so far from
preachers being more direlect than others, if we
were disposed to make any exception, it would
be in their favor.
jV M ’ DC READING has for agea hern fcjjju.
11 demited by moralists, utid ranked ill the class
ol vices. They reason from the effects to flic
cause, and very justly conclude, that if the former
are evil, so must-he the latter. To prove that
they are so, they point- us to the thousands of the
sickly, sentimental romance readers, who are
mentally as nimble to comprehend the details of
any business as they are physically incapable of
its performance. The small share of intellect
which they a* Ih,si possessed, has been perverted
and wasted by misapplication, and they have be
coiue unfit for anything, unless it be to write sen
timental nonsense, which none save those like
themselves can endure. For these mental abor
tions. no other proximate cause Ilian an ill-chosen
course of reading can be assigned.
iewing it thus, novel reading is certainly a
most pernicious vice: but tins view is neither iui
partial or does it present the subject in its whole
range. All works ol fiction have not the seduc
tive licentiousness of Eugene Sue, or the maudlin
sentimentality of the love-sick school. This class
is very numerous, and we fear, is the one most
generally read; but they are perversions of a no
ble branch of literature. We should not make a
sweeping condemnation of.a whole species of
writing merely because it is capable of abuse, and
is often abused. We should with books as we do
with mon—estimate their respective merits, dis-,
card the evil and retain the good. But in every
thing human, even the best is commingled with ,
much of evil. In all, we must cull and select
with prudent cure, if wo would derive profit and
avoid harm.
Those who unreservedly condemn novel read- j
ing cannot be wholly consistent, without placing
under ban every kind of fictitious writings. The
simple little stories designed to please and in- •
struct children, the more extended fable for the :
illustration of moral truth: nay, even the para- !
files with which the volume of Sacred Writ is filled, j
would be interdicted. From this course, there is
only one alternative: that is to state definitely i
what kinds of fiction arc admissible, and which j
are to be proscribed. When this is done, a large j
number of works which are now condemned as :
pernicious, would be not only permitted, but re- j
commended.
The truth is, novels have far loss influence than
is sometimes supposed. Most persons read books
of this class for entertainment merely, not ex
pecting either instruction or profit. Should they
meet with aught that gives them pleasure, the
recollection of it will linger in their memories as
do the pleasant incidents of life. A character in
whom they take delight may become like a loved
and chosen companion, whose visits are always
welcome, whose society is always sweet. But one
naturally of good sense and sound principles will
not have his morals corrupted by reading Tom
Jones, nor will the vicious be converted into
saints by the stories of good little boys and girls
about whom some writers are very fluent. Os
course there are some who will he influenced by
either, but not to that extent which many imag
ine.
Some of the grounds taken by the advocates of
novel reading, are more untenable than that oc
cupied by those who oppose them. One of these
most frequently taken, and upon which great
stress is laid, is, that they impart a knowledge of
human nature. It is true, that a novel, to be
valuable, must be an exhibition of life, describing
its scenes, incidents and characters. But these
are only representations, and the pleasure which
we derive from contemplating them arises, in a
great degree, from their agreement with what we
have known. If a writer describes a character
which wc have never found, we pronounce it un
natural, although no incongruous elements may
be brought together in its formation. We make
our own experience the real test by which to
judge of works of fiction, and this fact precludes
the possibility of our learning anything there
from.
Equally fallacious is the notion that novels in
culcate virtuous sentiments by showing that the
wicked arc always punished in this world, and
that virtue has its sure reward. It has indeed
Become a stereotyped plan with all romance wri
ters, after having carried their heroes and hero
ines through great trials and Sufferings, to make
them realize their fondest hopes and spend their
closing days in happiness. But this our observa
tion convinces us is untrue, and consequently
whatever influence such representations might
have, is counteracted. We all know that the
world is a scene of toil and tribulation, from
which none arc exempt. A kind Providence
sends rain and sunshine upon the just and the
unjust, and the same inscrutable power dispenses
liis blessings alike upon the virtuous and vicious.
In another state of existence will the line of dis
tinction he drawn, and wickedness and goodness
have their rewards. These arc facts which we
know, and which no tale of romance can ever re
move.
A far better plea for novel reading is, that it
improves the style, and gives a free use of lan
guage. Those who read with a view to the profit
of this kind which may he thence derived, will
find it to be by no means insignificant. To this
department of literature, some of the most mas
terly pens that ever wrote our language have
been devoted. In their works may be found all
that is elegant in thought, beautiful in sentiment
and graceful in expression. They have tastefully
combined the charms of prose and poetry, uniting
the sense and unshackled freedom of the one
with the smooth-flowing harmony of the other.
1 hey should, therefore, be studied closely and
accurately by all who aspire to excellence in com
position. J n their pages the student will find
lessons which will enforce by example an l illus
tration the bald precepts’ of didactic essays.
Wrapt by the beauties which he finds on every
page, he forgets the plot and the events of the
story. Ue cannot tell at what juncture the hero
declared his passion, or who was the object of his
love; but he knows that the words were dia
monds and the thoughts pure gold. By reading
volumes’ in which romance, inspired by the
breath of genius, has left an enchanting spell,
the philosopher has been enabled to give a vigor
to his thoughts, and the orator has imparted a
brighter polish to his wit.
From a review of the whole ground, we incline
to the opinion that those parents are injudicious
who arc so desirous of not having works of fiction
read by their children. They do not, indeed,
thereby withhold from them a source of informa
tion, but they do deny them a means of self-im
provement. A far better course would be to read
and decide for themselves what works they may
place in the hands of their children with safety,
and not taboo a large class of books upon mere
hear.-ay. In this way, a parent can implant a
strong love for reading in the mind of the dul
lest boy or girl. A few years of this prudent
training will enable them to read any book with
out hurt, accepting what is profitable and reject
ing the wcrthless. In novels, as in everything
else, let us try all, hold fast to that which is good.
The Fayetteville Journal says there is a little let
ter in the Post office at that place addressed to
■‘The Prettiest Lady in Faytevillle,” but the post
master, with commendable gallantry, does not
feel authorised to decide who shall have the let
ter, and refers the decision of the matter to those
interested, that lie may deliver the letter to that
disl'iiguished lady who shall be declared to be en
titled to the possession by a jury of her peers.
Who will get the letter?
: Miere strongly in the potency bf flfffiigie
ft Wc have Du doubt that a jiv< ><t ov ill>ui><l
ing name has much to do in deciding a person 8
(lidtinv ; lliat oue wauling in grace ( ,i digitilv
will prove a draw -hack which scarce any genius
or industry can overcome. But with our notions
of this subject—which some Ulink extravagant —
we have the -utmost disgust for llmse little chil
dish names which are now so common, especially
among women. We no longer hear the stately
names, Mary. Elizabeth, f-atharimS and others
that.have been rendered illustrious by the virllies
of t hose who have borne them. They are all now
changed for some softer and more endearing -
which carry with them an idea of effeminate del
icacy.
Our female verse and tale-writers have done
much toward bringing about this state of thing*.
They waste pa pc i and ink in scribbling love sick I
noneseose over w hat they esteem very poetical
signatures, for which their admirers conceive a j
great fancy. Asa consequence, the rising goner- •
atiou <>f females will he composed of “ Lillies,”
“Daisies,” “Pinkies,” and a multitude of such ,
names which would suit well enough for kittens ;
or birds, but are very ill-applied to staid, sober j
matrons. A year or two since, the idea struck
one of these literary brilliants of having an allite
rated do {tlnnu-. It took like wild lire; and
now all our papers ;ue for would be) Hooded with
interchanges of compliments between Jennie
Jessamines, Nettie Nettlesomes and Uettie Bee- 1
ties, and so forth, ad inhnifum.
Female names are much more expressive than
the names of males, and those who have dattgh- j
tors to christen should, therefore, exercise much
care in making a selection. They should not
choose those which arc well adapted to the lan
guage of the nursery, but will be totally inappro
priate when applied to grown women, wives and
mothers. This they need have no great difficulty
in doing; for our vocabulary of female names is
very full, and contains many of great beauty.
The histories of all countries have made us ac
quainted with a multitude remarkable for their
elegance, dignity and ease of pronunciation.
With all these before him, we would think one
might name a daughter without consulting a cat
alogue of cats and dogs.
While upon this subject, we will take the oc
casion of expressing the regret we have often felt,
that the maiden names of women should be so
completely lost by marriage, leaving no hint as
to who they were previous to that event. This is
always a great obstacle to those who attempt to
trace family geneaologies. This might, in a very
considerable degree, be obviated by the custom,
which is prevalent in England and in the north
ern portion of this country, of the lady’s retaining
her family name as a middle name after mar
riage. It would aid much in making this a gen
eral custom, if parents would remember to give
their daughters only one name at the time of
christening.
IDLE BOYS.
A writer in the Northwestern Christian Advocate
has the following sound advice to boys, which all
our young readers would do well to consider:
lie who is idle and vicious in school is still more
so when he leaves it. He who fires squibs, will in
time fire pistols. He who plays cards for sport,
will, if he not, play ere long for money. He who
robs hen roosts and orchards, will probably some
day rob safes and pocket-books. He may not do
it in the way to expose himself to the penitentia
ry ; he may have his wits so sharpened as to rob
legally, by setting up a wildcat bank, or betraying
the confidence of his employer,’or obtaining the
possession of property without the means of pay
ing for it, or by getting his hand upon the public
coders, that lie may till his own, under the soft
apppellation of “breach of trust*”
1 would that you could see with my eyes for a
little while: you would then think with me, that
he who, when a boy, could not be trusted, cannot
now that he is a man. It would not be proper
for me to mention names, or I could illustrate
this by numerous painful examples. But they are
not necessary. Elfeet will follow cause—as a man
sows, so shall he reap : boyhood is the seed-time,
of which manhood is the harvest.
As, therefore, vouj love yourselves, form the
habit, while young, of employing all your time
usefully. Never be unemployed. The land is
full of idlers, striving to live without labor. It is
not to l*e supposed that you are never to take re
creation; this is useful, it is necessary—but if it
conic after hard study or productive labor, it will
probably be healthful and moderate. An honor
able mind, in the desire of mere relaxation, will
not go forth informs of mischievous exertion. It
is not to be supposed that a boy is to be a man,
much less an old man : but, in the midst of his
mirth and hilarity, lie mav be innocent and ami
able.
•HUS lIEMAXS
In the following passage from Miss Jewsbury’s
Three Histories, she avowedly describes Mrs. He
mans :
“Egcria was totally different from any other wo
man I had overseen, either in Italy or in England.
She did not dazzle; she subdued me. Other wo
men might be more commanding, more versatile,
more acute, but I never saw one so exquisitely
feminine. Her birth, her education, but above
all, the genius with which she was gifted, com
bined to inspire a passion for the ethereal, the
tender, the imaginative, the heroic, in one word
the beautiful. It was in her a faculty divine, and
of daily life: it touched all things, but, like a
sunbeam, touched them with a golden finger.
“ Anytlxing abstract or scientific was unintelli
gible or distasteful to her. Her knowledge was
extensive and various ; but true to the first prin
ciple of her nature, it was poetry that she sought
in history, scenery, character, and religious belief
—poetry that guided all her studies, governed all
her thoughts, colored all her imaginative conver
sation. Her nature was at once simple and pro
found : there was no room in her mind for am
bition. The one was filled by imagination, the
other engrossed by tenderness.
“She had a passive temper but decided tastes:
any one might influence, but very few impressed
her. Her strength and her weakness lay alike
in her affectious; these wonld sometimes make
her weep, at others imbue he.t with courage; sO
that she was alternately a ‘falcon-hearted dove,’
and a ‘reed broken with the wind/ Her voice
was a sweet, sad melody, and her spirits l’eminded
me of an old poet’s description of the orange tree,
with its
“ ‘Golden lamps, hid in a night of green,’
or of those Spanish gardens where the pomegran
ate blossoms beside the cypress. Her gladness
was like a burst of sunlight; and if in her sadness
she resembled night, it was night wearing lier
stars. I might describe and describe forever, but
I should never succeed in portraying Egeria.
She was a Muse, a Grace, a variable child, a de
pendent woman, the Italy of human beings.”
■^■£ NEV *~l'ho desire to be rich is not evil of
itself.. It is nonsense for a man to stand up and
disclaim the desire for wealth, and urge upon
the world the idea that it should be poor. Mon
ey is neither an evil nor a good of itself; it has
not a moral character. It is simply an agent,
and whether it be good or evil, depends upon
the manner in which it is used. It is like asvvord.
\\ hetlicr a sword be in the hands of a Benedict
Arnold, bathed in his country’s blood, or in the
hands of a Washington, wielded for justiee and
it is a word only, and lias not a character.
” hetlier it be an instrument for good, or evil,
depends upon the character of him who holds
hilt, and not the sword itself. So it is with mon
ey. It is an agent; it is a gigantic motive-power
that thunders around the world. If the Devil
stands engineer, it thunders on, freighted with
untold mischief, scattering oppression, and cru
elty, and wrong. But iF it is guided by the spirit
of love and truth, it is like the sun, shedding
I light and summer upon the world. It isan anget
; of mercy and love, when directed by the spirit of
I Christ.— lkechcr.
Some of the merchants of St. Paul, Minnesota,
I arc importing largely from Europe direct, by way
;of Now Orleans and the Mississippi river. The
whole cost of transportation from Liverpool to
! St. Paul, by the way of the Mississippi, is little great
| er than that of transhipment and charges from
i New York.
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Mt may he defined to be the harmonious
combination of sounds, and may lie divided
into Iwo kinds; vocal and instrumental. Vocal
music, the more natural of the two, I have no
doubtAvas piitfctised long before, the latter was
known. In nearly all ages of the world, tin* his
tory of which has come down to us, vocal music
h:ts heen held in high repu.e; hut the eooipara
’ live superiority of vocal and instrumental music
still remains a question upon which connoisseurs
j are divided. It is said that “the vocal music of
• the Imperial < ‘horisters in St. Petersburg, in com- j
parablv surpassed, iu sweet ness and effect, the
■ sounds produceo by the combined power of the
most exquisite musical instruments.’’ Whether
this statement be correct or not, there are, none
! who will not hear testimony l<> the charming in
i flueuce of vocal music on tlie mind and besot.
Instrumental music is also of very ancient, date,
j its invention being ascribed to Tubal, the sixth
i descendant from Oiiu. “Music, indeed, is prm
j bably nearly coeval with our race, or at least with
the first attempts to preserve the memory of
. transactions. lAefore the invention of writing,
the history of remarkable events was committed
to memory, and handed down by oral tradition.
; The knowledge of laws ami useful arts'was pre
| served in the same way. Rhythm and song were
probably soon found important helps to the
; memory ; and thus the muses became the early
j instructors of mankind.” About 1800 year's be
fore Christ, vocal and instrumental music arc
spoken of as things in general use, aiul you will
find, by referring to the 20th and 27th verses of
j the ,3 lst chap, of Genesis, where the tabret, harp
and songs arc mentioned. By referring to the
New Testament, you will find that vocal music
only is mentioned in connection with personal
and social worship or edification. The. Old Tes
tament, however, contains frequent allusions to
the use of music, both vocal and instrumental, as
part of their religious exercises. -
“The ancient Jews insisted on having music at
marriages, on anniversary birth-days, at victories
and the inauguration of their kings; in their
public worship, and when they were coming from
afar, to attend the great festivals of their nation.”
“ Instrumental music was first introduced into
the Jewish service by Moses; and afterwards, by
the express command of God, was very much im
proved by the addition of several instruments in
the reign of David.” When Hezekiah restored
the temple service, it is said that “he set the Le
vites in the house ot the Lord, with cymbals, with
psalteries and with harps, according to the com
mandment of David, and of Gad, the king’s ever,
and Nathan, the prophet: for so was the com
mandment of the Lord by his prophets.”
At a very earty day, instrumental music was
united with vocal by some denominations of
Christians in their devotional exercises. It is not
for me to decide on this occasion, in reference to j
the propriety or impropriety of employing instru
mental music in religious services in our day. 1
leave that to other hinds and wiser heads, with
the remark that, like the traveller’s guide-post,
something is to be said on both sides.
All men are more or less sensible of the charms
and power of good music. You may enter the
most refined Christian congregations in our land,
and you will find that a very important part of
the service is that performed by singbuf. Good
singing is far preferable to poor preaching, espe
cially when the latter happens to contain the
essential elements of fatalism, and has no practj- ;
cal bearing. Singing properly done, is well cal
culated to stimulate the devotion of the good, j
and to subdue and melt the sterner nature of the j
thoughtless and the bad. You may leave the •
walls of the sanctuary and enter the had room,
and here again music wield its power and lends ‘
its magic influence to vitalize and enliven the
scene. Under the mighty spell of the violin, j
youth and beauty seem to catch renewed vigor
and activity. It matters not how dull and lazy j
the young man or young lady be, just let the fid- j
die strings vibrate, and at once every nerve seams >
to be supplied with a double portion of India
rubber! Indeed, it is said that some young ladies i
will stand on their feet all night at a ball. But
1 am not able to say whether they are prevented i
from sitting down by the powerful excitement of ;
the music, or the vast circumference of the white
oak hoops. I leave this-pes/d for, them to settle, j
if it needs settling.
You may leave the ball room and go to the
battle Jldd, and there the influence of the drum
and fife is laid under contribution. Bravery is
made reckless, and cowardice made brave, by the
stimulus of martial music. Where is the man
who would not set the sword at defiance, and
charge, like (,‘apt. May, on the blazing battery of
the enemy, if lie could hear rolling through the
air the notes of “ Yankee Doodle,” or the “ .Star
spangled Banner?” It is said that the ancient
Spartans, when on the battle field, run wild wiitli
excitement under the influence of martial music;
so much so, that their officers would not all ow
the drum and fife to be used when engaged in
actual combat.
You may leave the battle field and stand by
the cradle of infancy, and you will find that even
there the mother’s lullaby has its charm. The
wildest inmate of a lunatic asylum will cease his
ravings for a moment, to listen to the harmony
of sweet sounds. Even the savage Indian will
drop his club and tomahawk, when the melliflu
ous flow of sweet music arrests his ear, and the
ferocious wild beasts can be subdued into momen
tary gentleness by the magic power of music.
Music, sweet music! cheers the heart of the
living, encircles a charm around the bed of death,
and adds intensity to the raptures of heaven’s
joys! Music is impressed on all the beautiful
works of Nature. There is music in the gentle
flow of the rippling rill, and sublime music in the
storm-cloud and thunder of old ocean’s waves:
there is music in the lion’s roar, and in the night
ingale’s enchanting warble; there is music in the
hues of the rainbow, and in the rush of the ca,ta
ract; there is music in the mighty spheres which
sweep the cycles of immensity, and in beauty s
smile. So I fully endorse the language of the
immortal Shakspeare: “The man that has no
music in himself, nor is not moved with concou
of sweet sounds, is fit for stratagems and spoi s ,
the motions of his spirit are as dull as nig it, am
liis affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man
be trusted.”
In mo.mors S E lme tjeir j
spells and their perils. A young O ho *
endowed with most delicate neiwg, mentioned o„e
evening, to a few friends assembled in her thaw ,
ing room, that the |
intemiptccl by
of a Mr IVicml who vvn S™* on bull
and wore a rose-bud in her hoad-d e>>. ui tan
taMne turfed pole directly, tossed fcvnrmn, W
SM KSESy into n syncope
“Wliat a strange nervous susceptibility . \\ hat a
llclio-tc and impressive organization, crto.il the
spectators. “For heaven’s sake, madam go
away! Don't von see that you have caused this
sivism ?” “J ?” ” Yew, of course: it is the per
fume of the rose-bud in your hair,” “ Keiilly, and
it is so I-will sacrifice, the. guilty (lower! Bn
judge before you sentence.” ’Hie flower, detached
from the head-dress, was passed from hand to
h ind among the spectators, but their solicitude
soon gave way to a different emotion. ’The rose
bud was an artificial one !
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst? and
cold.
Brigham Young- isthe fatbprof lollv-ei)] lit chil
dren - lorlySHfc iirestiil living
is Hit’ ilillt'ViMH'o Mwenui ship mid a
In n! The hen lavs u,u egg, and the ship toys to.
’ * *
The subject of the propriety of admitting te
males into the University of Michigan is now be
fore the regents.
“There, was a lime wlion 1 almost thought that
your wife had no tongue at all.-’ 7 “Yes; but tis
very long since. - ’ !
<>n I lie marriage of a Miss Wheat, it Was hoped
that bev path might be flowery and that she might
never be thrashed.
The greatest organ in the world, some old bach
elor says, is (he organ of speech in a woman—it
is an organ without at ops.
“1 have turned many a woman’s head,” boasted
a, young nobleman of K ranee. ‘‘Yes,” replied Tal
leyrand. ■■atrutj from vou, : ’
A gentleman the otherevening objected to play
ing cards with a voting lady because she had such
a winning way about her.’
There were Seventy-four deaths by yellow fever
in New Orleans on Tuesday, the 2 ith inst., and
forty-fnr deaths on Wednesday, the 25th.
“She is all my fancy ynh-trd her,’’ as the young
Indian said of his favorite sduaw, whose face lie
had just bedaubed with vermillion ami yellow
ochre.
The- Jk>ston Pitot, reports the death of John
Lawrence Forrest, one of Ireland’s sweetest poets,
lie died at Cincinnati, at the age of forty-three
\ ears.
L<>rd Byron once said. “You never know a
man’s temper until you have, been imprisoned on
hoard of a ship with him, or a woman’s until you
have married her.”
1 luring an examination, a medical student be
ing asked the question, “When does mortification
ensue?” replied : “When-you pop the question,
and are answered. ‘Mo.’ ”
The most remarkable instance of indecision we
ever heard of was that of the man who sat up all
night because lie could not decide which to take
oft’first, his coat or his boots.
Rev trio. C. Shephard, D. I>. of Boston, has
made a donation of SI.OOO towards the sum of
81*1.000, which the graduates resolved to raise to
inere se the library of Amherst College.
The Jews of London intend to present to Lady
Jolin Russell a boudoirsnite, consisting of a table
and four chairs, composed of solid silver, as a mark
of their sense of the obligation they owo her hus
band.
“It is very difficult to live.” said a widow, with
several girls, all in genteel poverty. “You must
husband your time,” said a sage friend. “ I’d
rather husband my daughters,” answered the poor
lady.
Everybody has heard of Buncombe speeches,
and therefore they will not be surprised to hear
that Samuel A. Buncombe recently made a speech
at St. Paul, Minneso a, in honor of the Atlantic
Telegraph.
A peddler calling out an old lady to dispose of j
some goods, inquired of her if she could tell him
of any road on which no peddler had traveled.
“Yes,’, replied she, “ I know of one, and that’s the
road to Heaven.”
A large tooth has been found on the banks of j
Mongahela ’river. Jt is 14 inches circumference,
four and three-quarter inches deep one way, and
two and tlire-quarler inches thick the other, and
weighs four pounds.
Charles Matthews, jr., the son of an actor, was
brought up as an architect. The father was once
asked by a friend, what profession the young man
was to be. ‘Why,’ said the comedian, ‘he is to
draw houses, as Iris father does.’
An editor in the far West has bought a race j
horse, for which he paid two thousand dollars. |
On being asked what an editor had to do with a ;
race-horse, lie replied that “lie was to he used in j
catching runaway subscribers.’’
Os the 48 Senators who took their seats in the
eighteenth Congress in 1824, but two survive—
Martin Van Burcn of New York, and John Branch
of North Carolina—the latter of whom was a
member of Gen. Jackson’s first Cabinet.
Cash helps courting along amazingly. Aston- j
isliihg what balls and suppers, bracelets and a j
“love of a bonnet,” suburban rides and picnics, j
will do towards expanding the feminine heart j
and getting into the father’s house—as well as the
daughter’s ‘good graces.’
A colored clergyman, in New Haven, Conn., ’
has been arrested upon a charge, of stealing loath- j
er and hides from the establishment of Messrs.
Hilbert, on George street, in that city. The proof
is said to be conclusive, and the accused was com
mitted to jail in default of 8500 bonds.
The Cotfeeville (Miss.) Inldlo/nun calls the edi
tress of the Yazoo /turner “Mother Prewitt.” Sim
on the supposition that lie means mother of the
press, regrets the designation, since in that case
says she’ “the (’otteeville editor is our.son, and Sol
omon says, ‘a fool is a reproach to liis mother.’ ”
Yi x kuar i kom W.vtkrx Ki.oxs. — Acorespondent ol
lire Michigan Funner scraped oft” the pulp of wa
termelons. strained it through a thick cloth, and
boiled it down one half, or, as old cider boilers
say, two to one, put it in a cask, and in three weeks
“had most excellent vinegar,” which continued
to improve with age.”
i The oouuly ol Henderson, in North Carolina,
I is said to he the only one in the State in which
i every” male, save one. over twenty years of age,
can reach It is doubtful if the same can be said
of any other one in the South, perhaps not even
in the New England States, where the system of
education is so thorough.
The ltith of August, on which the first telegram
was sent across the ocean is memorable day in
American annals. On that day, in
set out on his expedition to Mexico; in 7777 the
battle of Bennigton, and in 1780 the battle of Cam
den, were fought, and in 182A the Nothern Sea
was discovered by Captain Franklin.
There was a white, frost at Rochester, New
! York on the 24th inst. In Cataraugus ( aunty.
New York, on the 20th, the hills were covered
with frost, and there were, signs of it in thevah
Uws There was frost in various sections of Mas
sachusetts on Thursday morning, 26th nist and
at Franklin, N. 11. there was a snow squall of five
minutes’ duration.
The flowers live hy the tears that fall
From the features of the skies :
An<l life would have, no joys at all,
Were there no watery eyes.
Love thy sorrow; grief shall bring
Its own excuse in sifter years;
The rainbow! see how fair a thing
t!od hath built up from tears.
\ physician going dovm State-street with a
I friend of his, said to him, ‘‘Let us avoid that pret
|t*r little woman you see there on the left: she
knows me, and casts on mo looks of indignation.
I attended her husband—— ’
’ “Ah ! I understand: you had the misfortune to
I dispatch, him.” ■ .
“On the contrary,” replied the doctor, T saved
I him.”
A rich man sent to call a physician for a slight
! disorder. The physician feet his pulse and asked
i “l>c you eat well?”
“Yes,” said the patient.
“ Do you sleep well ?”
“1 do”
“Then,” said the physician, “I can give you
1 something to take away all thtif, it you think it
necessary.” “*
How TO CO TO Si.keh —No doubt, there are many j
: of our readers who understand tins delightful art j
! to perfection, but there are eerta n conditions oi
i animal economy, even in a state of health, when
• tired nature’s sweet resort refuses to oloseour lids,
an 3 seems pertinaciously to Hy fivrn us, though
\voed ever so warmly. One wvitae recommends
‘! a “rolling of the eye balls.” Moir.rid idea! Jhe
meet natural and iacilts method is to place the
head in a comfortable position, anil then taking
1 a full inspiration, breathe as tnuoli as possible
i through ‘the nostrils. The attention nwist now be !
i fixed upon the fact of breathing. Ilm patient
must imagine that he seee the breath passing irom
his nostrils, and the very moment h<> brings his
mind to conooivo this apart froinall other ideas,
consciousness and memory depart,—an.d he sleeps.
The method is strange but simple, jmd the ex
i periment will prove its truth.
llimt; WITHOI T A MOTHER,
W liat is lionu- williuu) a-mother/
Wjiui aw all I liy se joys wc nu-cl?
Wiieu licjr loving smile iio longer.
Greets the coininy ofowr feci ;
The days seems long, the iJighis are drear,
And t une rolls slowly on;
And ()! how lew arc childhood's pleasures,
When her gentle care is gone.
Things we prize an: first to vanish.
Hearts wo jovc lo pass away !
And how soon e’en in our childhood,
We (K'ludd her turning grey.
Her eyes grow dim, her stop is slow,
Her joys on earth are passed,
And before wc learn to know her.
She hath b£eadicd on earth her last.
Other hearts may have their sorrows ;
Griefs that quickly die away ;
Hut a mother lost in childhood,
.Grieves the heart from day to day.
We miss her kind and willing hand,
Her fond and earnest care—
And <>! h.nv drear is life around us.
What's home without a mother's there f
SCATTER Tilt-: OhKIIN Os THE BEAFTI-
F(JL.
Be;Mer the germs of the beautiful!
Ilv the way side let them fall,
That the rose may spring up hv the cottagegate,
And the vine on the garden wall;
Cover the rough and the rude of earth
With a veil of leaves and (lowers,
And mark with the opening hud and cup
The march of summer hours.
Scatter the germs of the beautiful
In the holy shrine of homo ;
Let the pure, and the fair, and the graceful there
lit the loveliest come.
Leave not a trace of deformity
In the temple of the heart.
But gather about iis earth the germs
Os Nature and of An.
Scalier the germs of the beautiful
In the temples of our God—
The God who starred the uplifted sky,
And (lowered the trampled sod.
When lie built a temple for himself,
And a home for his priestly race,
He roared each arch in symmetry,
And carved eacli line in grace.
Scatter tlie germs of the beautiful
In the depth ot the human soul;
They shall bud and blossom, and bear their fruit
While the endless ages roll.
Plant with the flowers of charity
The portals of the tomb,
And the fair and pure about thy path
In paradise shall bloom.
SALARIES AND WEALTH OF ACTORS.
A New York paper has'been publishing some
statistics on the subject of the pay of actors and
actresses, which possesses much interest, ami es
pecially to some of the young amateurs who form
delusive ideas of the splendid incomes their tal
ent will secure for them when they come regu
larly before the public. From this it appears
that Forrest receives 8200 a night, or half the
house , but then, this is not a regular salary, and
probably no other man on either side of the At
lantic could ask or get a similar sum. George
Jordan receives the largest regular salary of any
man on the stage in the United States, lie gets
$125 per week, (good looks will tell). Lester,
Brougham, Blake. James Wallack, Walcot, Henry
Placide, jEddy, < ’harles Mathews, for self and
wife, and Conway, when playing on a salary, re
ceive 8100 per week. Jefferson has been re
ceiving 875, but intends demanding more next
season. C. Wheatleigh, Burnett, 11. A. Perry,
Tom Placide, George Holland and T. B. Johnson,
SSO. H. B. Phillips, ‘(prompting and playing)
C. W. Clarke, (managing and playing,) G. Boni
face, G. H. Fox, John Sloan, H. Watkins, 835,
and so on down to 4. Supernumeraries arc paid
‘25 cents per night; when they black 50 cents.
Os the actresses, Mrs. Iloey receives SSO; Mrs.
Vernon, 835 ; Mary Gannon, 830: Mrs. Hughes,
Miss Wells, Miss Hathaway, Rosa Cline, Mrs. Par
ker, and Ada Clifton, 820 : Mrs. Allen and Sarah
Stevens, 820: Ballet girls from 83 to 80 per week
each, ’fiic above sums refer to regular salaries,
and have no reference to stars, whose incomes
vary with the places, in which they act. Taking
the best of the above salaries, allowing for lost time
between engagments, the expenses of wardrobe
(extra wa-lting for the wardrobe is often a con
siderable item in :m actor’s expenses) and other
drawbacks, and it will be seen that the pav of ac
tors is by no means sa’ariesit
should also be borne in nund arc wlmt they re
ceive in prosperous times. As to wealth, Forrest
and Burton sire the richest, both being set down
at about 8300,000 each : Barney Williams at 870.-
000: Collins tho Irish actor, Miss J. M. Daven
port, and Chau Iran, 830,000 each. Bouricault
and C. W. Clarke, 825,000 each ; Xeafie and the
Florences about 820,(*00 : Brougham Eddy, Eliza
Logan, and Matida Herron about 810,000 each ;
Maggie Mitchell about 87,000: Edwin Booth
85,000 and A. 11. Davenport, 82,< *00.
HOME WIVES AND FOREIGN 111 SBANDS.
Foreigners—that is to say, continental for
eigners—do not seek American wives, except for
their fortunes. This is tho plainest of all social
truths. of course there have been cases'where
foreigners, settling in this country and becoming
American citizens, have married American girls,
and made very good husbands. But foreign visit
ors to this country, designing to return and re
side in Europe, never many American girls for
mere love. Their motives are those of fortune,
i or of mere betrayal of virtue, knowing that a pre
vious marriage has made the new tie legally im
possible. We have never known one of these
; showy foreigners seriously desiring to marry a
poor American girl: and we have never heard of
! an American girl, married to a foreigner and re
j turning to Europe to reside, who had a happy life.
! Wives in France and Italy, and to some extent
| even in Germany, do not occupy the happy and
honorable position that they do in America and
England: and husbands, in those countries, are
often notoriously and shamelessly faithless. A
more melancholy position than ol a neglected
young American wife of a French husband, in the
whirl of Paris, or the dismal splehdorcf any other
! European capital, can hardly be imagined. Many
have come home to their parents after sftch
wretched existence as this, glad to purchase tjieiy
liberty and happiness, even at the sacrifice ot a
larce part of their fortunes.
There will he at every fashionable watering
place, this summer, one or two or more ot these
fascinating foreigners, who turn the heads of so
many of the young American misses. V> atenng
place botch, with their public and promiscuous
tables and ball rooms, and their total freedon
from the restraint of society at home, are favorite
resorts of all kinds of adventurers, and French,
German and Italian adventurers often find easy
prey among the verdant young women and young
men who go there for health and recreation. Let
the fathers and mothers quietly keep their daught*
ers out of the way of every one of them, and let the
recent example of the scoundrel, the seducer and
the bigamist, Riviere, be anew warning to them,
teaching them that best thing they can do for the
happiness of their daughters is to train them well
in habits of refinement anti moderation, #nd fit
them for good American wives, There will be no
trouble in getting for them good American hus
bands.
Tree. —Every day we live, says an exchange,
weave more than ever convinced that nine-tenths
of the misfortunes which attend humanity are
self-inflicted. People jump off railroad cars while
in motion : go bathing in deep water when they
cannot swim; imbibe spirituous liquor and meet
with accidents; expose themselves regardless of
prudence, and suffer all manner of most evil con
sequences, rvliicli a little forethought would, in
most cases, have averted. People know very well
that a violation of the common law involves a
penalty, and yet utterly ignore the fact that nature
is still more inexorable than the legislature, and
visits with correspoding punishments every trans
gression of her laws.
A witness being called into court to testify in
a certain cause there pending, on being asked
what he knew of the matter give the following
lucid evidence, lie undertakes to relate a con
versation between himself and the defendant.
“Pat!” said he; “What said I; “Here said he;
“Where?” said I; ‘lt’s cold!” Said he; “Faithit
is!” said 1: “Olio!” said he; “Ah!” said I;
‘‘The Devil!” said he ; “When (whistling), said I;
“And that's all he told me upon the subject.”
<!>!>
Nebraska isour largest Territory. It will make
70 States as large as X. Hampshire, and is about
one sixth the size of Europe.
The vineyards about Cincinnati are attacked
! by a species of rot, which will make the grape
j crop a perfect failure.
! Two brothers by the name of Rich were lately
j married to sisters by the name of Wings, and have
since emigrated ; thus showing that riches taka
. to themselves wings.